Multi-Facility Access Rights Inheritance via Tree-Form Drag-and-Drop

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional access right management systems are inefficient and prone to errors, particularly when multiple facilities and organizations collaborate, as access rights are not automatically updated across directories, leading to inconsistencies and increased risk of personal information leakage.

Innovation Solution

An integrated multi-facility document management system using a tree-form layout representation for both document categories and staff members, allowing for efficient and visible management of access rights, with inheritance from a root direction, and a drag-and-drop operation for easy setting and synchronization of access rights across facilities and organizations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional access right management systems are used in multi-facility environments, then staff can access documents at their home facility, but access rights are not automatically updated across other facilities, leading to inconsistencies and information leakage risks

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess right managementVSAvoidaccess right consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges access right management across multiple facilities by establishing a parent-child relationship between facility directories. When a staff member's access rights are modified at one facility, these changes are automatically inherited and updated across all child facilities through the unified tree-form directory structure, ensuring consistency without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-establishes a tree-form directory structure where facility directories are organized in parent-child relationships before access right management begins. This preliminary structural setup enables automatic inheritance and propagation of access rights across facilities, preventing inconsistencies before they occur rather than correcting them afterward.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If manual access right management is implemented across multiple facilities, then detailed control over document access is possible, but the complexity of managing and synchronizing access rights increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess right controlVSAvoidaccess right management system

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the access right management system into hierarchical levels: parent facility directories and child facility directories. Each level can be managed independently, but changes at the parent level automatically propagate to child levels. This segmentation reduces complexity by allowing localized management while maintaining automatic synchronization across the entire system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces a hierarchical dimension to access right management by organizing facilities in a tree-form structure with parent-child relationships. This dimensional organization transforms flat, complex many-to-many access relationships into structured hierarchical relationships, simplifying management while maintaining detailed control capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of manufacture

If access rights are updated manually at each facility, then detailed local control is maintained, but inconsistencies and errors increase, risking personal information leakage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess right configurationVSAvoidaccess right synchronization

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where access right modifications at any facility are automatically detected and propagated to related facilities through the tree-form directory structure. This real-time feedback and automatic update system ensures that access rights remain synchronized across all facilities, eliminating inconsistencies and errors that would occur with manual updates.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

4Adaptability or versatility

If separate document management systems are used at each facility, then local customization is possible, but information sharing and collaboration between facilities become inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefacility autonomyVSAvoidinformation sharing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal tree-form directory structure that serves multiple facilities simultaneously while maintaining the ability to access and share documents across facility boundaries. This multi-functional structure enables both local facility autonomy and cross-facility information sharing, improving collaboration efficiency without sacrificing customization capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11264127B2Integrated multi-facility document management system

Publication Date: 2022.03.01 INST OF MEDICAL INFORMATION TECH CO LTD

AI summary

An integrated multi-facility document management system is configured to allow an access right attribute to be dragged and dropped from one tree form to a root of a another tree form whereby when the access right attribute is dragged and dropped from the one tree form to the root of the other tree form a corresponding access right attribute of the root is changed to the access right attribute and a corresponding access right attribute in branches connected to the root is changed to the access right attribute.